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'Listen to the players': Reed, Perez blame PGA Tour for departure to LIV

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Americans Pat Perez and Patrick Reed said on Tuesday the PGA Tour had only itself to blame for losing players to the Saudi-backed breakaway LIV Golf Invitational Series, ahead of a tournament at Oregon's Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club.Sitting alongside four-times major winner Brooks Koepka, Perez and 2018 Masters winner Reed ripped into the PGA Tour and its commissioner, Jay Monahan, and said the blame for their departure lay at the feet of the golf organizing body."Monahan just shut it out from the start.

Didn't want to listen, didn't want to take a meeting," said Perez, a 46-year-old, three-time PGA Tour winner."They didn't listen to the players.

Somehow, the tour, they keep talking about 'Oh yea, we work for you, we work for the players.' But it's the opposite. Seems like we work for them.

We don't have a say in anything."Earlier this month, the PGA Tour suspended members who joined LIV Golf, with Monahan saying they had "decided to turn their backs" on the tour.

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